Finance might be relatively late to cloud adoption, but surveys and client experiences depict continued adoption of the cloud among finance leaders.

Previously, CFOs and other finance officers were hesitant to use cloud because of concerns around security and privacy, and due to uncertainty about return on investment (ROI). This viewpoint started shifting a couple of years ago as leaders started to recognize the competitive benefits of cloud beyond bottom-line cost trimming. In many cases, they have found that enterprise performance management (EPM) is a good place to get started.